HALF-MILLION FIGHTING MEN
CANADA'S VOLUNTEER FORCES.
B.O.W.
RUGBY, Oct. 13.
"Out of a population of fewer than 11,000,000 Canada has over 500,000 in the three -Fighting Services, voluntarily enlisted for general services (anywhere," said the Minister for National Defence, Mr Ralston, in London to-day. The Navy, which started from almost nothing at the beginning of the war, to-day possessed more than 550 ships. In the Canadian active Army there were 335,000 offlcers and men in Canada and aforoad and in the Royal Canadian Aii Force there were alreadv more rhan 130,000 offlcers and men. The Minister for Munitions anci Supply, Mr Howe, gave details of Canada's war effort in industry, mentioning that besides other activities, Canada was turning out one 10,000-ton merchant ship every three days.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 242, 14 October 1942, Page 5
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126HALF-MILLION FIGHTING MEN Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 242, 14 October 1942, Page 5
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